Background: So far there have been no studies focusing on the prevalence of a wide spectrum of oral mucosal
lesions (OML) in patients with dermatologic diseases. This is noteworthy as skin lesions are strongly associated ...

Background: Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grades 2 and 3 are usually grouped and treated in the same
way as “high grade”, in spite of their different risk to cancer progression and spontaneous regression rates. ...

Background: The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is the most important genomic region that contributes to the
risk of graft versus host disease (GVHD) after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Matching of MHC ...

Background:
Tumor cell proliferation is a predictor of survival in cutaneous melanoma. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prognostic impact of mitotic count, Ki-67 expression and novel proliferation markers ...

NGAL/lipocalin-2 is a siderophore-binding protein that is highly expressed in several cancers. It is suggested to confer a proliferative advantage to cancer cells. Its expression has been correlated with aggressiveness of ...

Background: Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been connected with cancer progression in vivo and the
generation of more aggressive cancer cell lines in vitro. EMT has been induced in prostate cancer cell ...

Introduction The lymphotoxin-beta receptor (LT&beta;R) pathway is important in the development and maintenance of lymphoid structures. Blocking this pathway has proven beneficial in murine models of autoimmune diseases ...

Background
This study aimed to determine the age-specific aetiologic agents of diarrhoea in children aged less than five years. The study also assessed the efficacy of the empiric treatment of childhood diarrhoea using ...

Background: Basal-like breast cancer has been extensively characterized on the basis of gene
expression profiles, but it is becoming increasingly common for these tumors to be defined on the
basis of immunohistochemical ...